For how long will the damned suffer in hell, according to "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards?

"" by , a Puritan minister, is arguably the most famous sermon in American
literature. It was delivered in 1741 at the peak of a revival of spirituality in America called
the Great Awakening to a rather recalcitrant church. The sermon is full of vividdesigned to
awaken fear and inspire faith in listeners, and by most accounts, it worked. 

In the fourth point of the "Application" section of the sermon, Edwards
reminds the people sitting in the pews--many of whom by this point in the sermon
are...

What was the cause of African-Amercans' discontent?

Long after the
Civil War there was racial segregation throughout the United States as the U.S. Supreme Court in
1883 declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional. Federal workplaces and the U.S.
military were segregated. In the North, African-Americans were restricted by hotels and such as
to where they could stay. Also, there were patterns of segregation in banking practices,
housing, and employment. In the South, African-Americans experienced segregation in every facet
of their lives. The Jim Crow Laws had established that there were to be "separate but
equal" facilities for blacks and whites, but such was not the case. Schools were run down,
housing was in the most unfavorable areas, only lowly jobs were available--every place was
segregated. In some places voting rights were denied. Although in a landmark decision in 1954,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated
schools were unconstitutional, the Jim Crow Laws were not overruled until 1964 when the Civil
Rights Act and The Voting Rights Act of 1965 were passed.

The Reverend Martin
Luther King became a civil rights activist in the 1950s as he participated in the 1955
Montgomery (AL) Bus Boycott. He embraced the non-violent protest methods of Mahatma Ghandi and
helped to organize non-violent protests in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. It was there that he was
arrested and wrote his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." King, who helped to
found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, organized a march to Washington, D.C. where
he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.

In his speech, Dr. King
uses theof a promissory note to describe the promises of the U.S. Constitution that were denied
African-Americans, declaring that they are calling in this note.

This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be
guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar
as her citizens of color are concerned. 

African-Americans wanted the freedoms to which they were entitled under the
Constitution, King explains.

...Now is the time to lift
our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the
time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

African-Americans do not wish to be denied their Constitutional rights any longer, King
contends in his speech. For it is this denial of their rights that has caused the discontent of
many and led them to march on Washington, D.C.

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What is the central idea of William Blake's poem "The Tyger"?

byis a poem exploring
the nature of the Creator. Throughout the poem, the speaker lists attributes of the tyger and
then poses a question about how such a thing could be made. For example, in the fourth stanza,
the speaker says:

What the hammer? what the
chain,

In what furnace was thy
brain?

What the anvil? what dread
grasp,

Dare its deadly terrors
clasp!

Here, he is questioning what it would
take, and who would be able, to create something that strikes fear into those who see
it.

The fifth stanza closes on this line: "Did he who made the
Lamb make thee?" This question helps to illuminate the purpose of the poem, as
we understand that the speaker is struggling to believe that a Creator who could fashion
something as peaceful and sweet as a lamb could also create something as powerful and deadly as
a tiger.

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In the story "Young Goodman Brown", what do the pink ribbons symbolize?

I see the pink
ribbons symbolizing the ambivalence that Goodman Brown is experiencing in continuing his journey
further into the woods.  The color pink is created when you mix white (purity, innocence) with
red (evil, devil).  Therefore, the pink ribbons floating down from the sky when Goodman Brown is
troubled about what he is experiencing on his journey symbolizes his torment that he is
experiencing in trying to resist evil. The two colors mixing together symbolizes the
"mixing" if you will of the fight within Goodman Brown between thoughts of good and
evil.

The pink ribbons also symbolize that good and evil are mixed and
inherent in every human being as Goodman Brown realizes when his journey takes him to the
Devil's altar at the end of the story.

What are the boys and girls of noble family taught?

In
Lilliput, children are educated in large
public nurseries where they are taught the skills and
knowledge appropriate
to their social standing. Boys and girls of the Lilliputian nobility are

taught honor, justice, modesty, clemency, religion, and love of country. Life's pretty
hard in
the nursery for both sexes: they are never allowed out of the sight
of their professors and must
never talk...

Why was working for wages resisted by ex-slaves struggling for freedom after emancipation?

Ex-slaves
resisted working for wages after emancipation for several reasons.  One reason was the former
slaves were used to having all of their basic needs taken care of by the plantation owner.  As
long as they had been alive, they didnt have to worry about these needs. Some former slaves
preferred to have this arrangement continue after being freed.  Since the former slaves had no
experience in buying food, getting clothing, as well as locating and securing a place to live,
it was easier for them to stay on the plantation and work there in exchange for having their
basic needs covered.  Also, many former slaves had no idea what a good wage would be for their
labor.  Additionally, some plantation owners told the former slaves they were not free to
leave.  Since the slaves had been used to following orders their entire life, many continued to
believe in and listen to the planation owners.  Furthermore, many slaves found life to be very
difficult after being freed.  In some cases, white landowners wouldnt rent them land. In other
cases, the sharecropping system kept some former slaves in a slavery-like condition (because of
the constant debt), that some slaves preferred to work on plantations, not for pay, but for
having their needs taken care of by the plantation owners. There were several reasons why former
slaves resisted working for wages after they were freed.

What Advice Does Thoreau Offer To Those Who Live In Poverty

Henry
Thoreau doesnt specifically offer advice to anyone already living in dire poverty, per se.
Instead, in the Economy chapter of , he recommends simplifying ones life
as much as possible. This simplification extends to career choice and bank book tally. He sees
wealth as a burden, not a benefit. He tells us in paragraph 96 that he found by working about
six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living. He did surveying work, wrote,
lectured, and did some manual labor. In paragraph 98, he says, In short, I am convinced, both
by faith and experience, that to maintain ones self on this earth is not a hardship but a
pastime, if we will live simply and wisely. His needs were few, and he figured out how much
money he needed to live the way he wanted to live. He didnt need to accumulate more, just for
the sake of having it.

He continues with this theme in the next chapter,
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, where he tackles the topics of material possession,
including land ownership. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can
afford to let alone, he says at the end of the first paragraph. He fostered living not only a
simple life, but a deliberate one. We dont need to surround ourselves with a lot of meaningless
stuff. He never owned property, either. As long as possible live free and uncommitted, he says
in paragraph 5. If you owned a house or land, you were chained to it unnecessarily and
permanently. This was not something he was willing to do. Yes, he lived in a simpler time, in
some ways. Yet his suggestions are still good reminders for us today: prompting us to take the
time to analyze what are the most important aspects of our lives. Work and possessions may not
be as important as we are often led to believe, especially by advertisers and marketing
experts.

You can find more of Thoreaus advice along these lines in his essay
Life Without Principle, as well as in the letters that he sent to friend H. G. O. Blake,
compiled in the book Letters to a Spiritual Seeker (Edited by Bradley P.
Dean, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004).